The Bremerton Symphony Orchestra has announced its six-concert 2015-16 season, which begins on Oct. 10 with an all-Dvorak program featuring the return of former North Kitsap resident Claire Sledd for Dvorak’s violin concerto.
That concert, one of four at the Bremerton Performing Arts Center, also will feature Bremerton Symphony Chorale director and mezzo-soprano LeeAnne Campos in a performance of “Four Biblical Songs.” Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 seals the deal on music director and conductor Alan Futterman‘s season opener.
“Organ Principals, Swell to Great” finds the Symphony visiting Our Lady Star of the Sea Church in Bremerton on Nov. 14 and 15 for a program including works by Debussy, Vivaldi, Barlow, Reinecke and Saint-Saens. The first four pieces will feature members of the Symphony’s woodwind section — respectively, clarinetist William Ferman, bassoonist Adam Williams, oboist Amy Duerr-Day and flutist Deliana Broussard. Organist Peggy Maurer will be featured in a performance of Saint-Saens’ Organ Symphony.
The Symphony and Concert Chorale have their annual holiday get-together on Dec. 13, a 2 p.m. matinee, featuring J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach’s “Magnificat” and Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony, among other Christmastime goodies.
Saint Saens is back for the March 12 concert with his “March militaire. That concert also features Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 and the violin concerto of Paganini, with guest Erich Woo up front.
The focus is on light opera for the April 15 and 16 concerts at Gateway Fellowship in Poulsbo (Friday evening) and the Sylvan Way Baptist Church (Saturday evening). The Symphony and Chorale will perform a concert version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore.”
The season concludes on May 22 with a 4 p.m. concert featuring performances by the BSO Young Artists Competition winners, and the Symphony and Chorale combining for Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky and Disciples.”
Other events include the annual “Brunch With Bach” fund-raising brunch and performance on Jan. 23; a Feb. 9 family concert at the Admiral Theatre, with the Symphony playing and the Peninsula Dance Theatre dancing Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” and a preview performance of the Paganini violin concerto with Erich Woo; the Symphony League Gala on Oct. 25, with Campos performing Telemann’s “Canary” cantata; Bremerton Youth Symphony concerts on Nov. 22, March 13 and May 15; and a trio of chamber performances in different Kitsap venues on Oct. 24 (Campos and Telemann) and Jan. 15 and 17 (Gounod’s “Petite Symphonie”).
Information is available at 360-373-1722, or by following this link: bremertonsymphony.org
— MM
